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...Missouri. Two years after he had received his diploma from Yale, he went to live in St. Louis and, as Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, associated himself with the Missouri Medical College in the early days of that institution. When only 34, he became a judge, speedily earned a sobriquet of honor: "Iron Judge." In his post-judicial days, he put iron into the feeble Republican Party and was at least partly responsible for Missouri's voting for Republican Presidents in '04, '08, '20, '24. He was one of the few Republicans elected to the Senate...
...permanent residence for Prince George and appointed a special doctor." Prince George, 37 years of age, is the eldest son of the late King Peter and renounced his rights to the throne in 1909. His extraordinary behavior, manifested in a supreme disregard for social etiquette, won for him the sobriquet of "the hotspur of Europe," and the conviction that he was mad. On one occasion, it is related, he was bounced out of a Belgrade music hall for flinging champagne bottles at the orchestra leader. On two occasions he was banished from the country, but each time he returned...
...that time, Joseph Jefferson was the most famous actor on Broadway. Said he: "God bless the Little Church Around the Corner." His remark became the sobriquet of the church and an English idiom...
Thirty-five years ago, Charles R. Elint began his lifelong habit of forming mergers and combines. His sobriquet "father of the trusts" has been gained by the active part which he has played in the organization of 22 large corporations, including U. S. Rubber, American Woolen, American Chicle, Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Somerset Coal. Mr. Flint is now 75 years of age, but his favorite occupation still has such a hold upon him that he is now planning the largest project of his life?a $100,000,000 merger of soft-coal companies in West Virginia, involving about...
...frenzied financier, called "the world's greatest speculator"; in Boston, after an operation for diabetes. When 17, he ran away from school, in five years had made-and lost-$60,000 in speculation. He bought copper stock for 75c, sold it for $60 a share, won a new sobriquet, "the Copper King." Died. Oliver Heavisicle, 70, last year awarded a gold medal by the Society of Electrical Engineers (London), as "the greatest living authority on electricity"; in Devonshire, England, of a fall from a ladder. He was obscure, frequently destitute, a recluse in his cottage. His death notice...